KODI 20.1 Nexus, available for download and install

Available for download the new official version Kodi 20.1 “Nexus”. In this new update, we have multiple bug fixes.

This new version Kodi Nexus v20.1 as we have seen has few changes at the aesthetic level, it is a fairly continuous version in this aspect.. Internally, the most important change is AV1 codec support for Android, Linux and streaming. In any case, we have versions available for Windows in 32 and 64bit compilations in addition to the compilations for Android in ARM V7A format for greater compatibility and ARM V8A for Shield TV or similar.

• WARNING SOME ADD-ONS STOP WORKING WITH THIS VERSION, you can only go back to KODI 19.5 version.

Download KODI 20.1 Nexus Final

• DOWNLOAD WARNING: there are browsers that block EXE and APK download, use right click “Save link as”, then in the download tab below click on the little arrow above next to “Discard” and select SAVE.

Download KODI 20.1 for Android

• Download apk Kodi v20.1 Nexus Final for Android 32 bit ARM V7A, compatible with all the TV-Box.
• Download apk Kodi v20.1 Nexus Final for Android 64 bit ARM V8A, only NVidia, Realtek and some Rockchip SoC’s.
• How to install an APK on Android, from USB or sending APK from your mobile.
• How to block KODI 19.5 and avoid KODI 20.1 update, avoid addons problems.

Download KODI 20.1 for Windows

• Download installer Kodi v20.1 Nexus Final installer for Windows 64 bit, recommended for any PC.
• Download installer Kodi v20.1 Nexus Final for Windows 32 bit, for very old PCs.

KODI Tutorials

• Installing Addons on KODI, step by step guide and additional tricks.
• Fix Judder effect, avoid image jumps during playback.
• Multichannel sound on Android and Windows, HD sound in your home.
• Use SAMBA home network with KODI

Changelog

Audio

• @fritsch has been working feverishly on Android-related audio issues over the past couple of months, and in combination with @thexai has introduced an algorithm to look to overcome some audio issues particularly aimed at Android devices. A summary is:

  Algorithm runs for 30 seconds to learn what is going on: during this time no corrections are done, but the internal m_disconAdjustTimeMs is updated to a new value whenever when the sync error is found to increase. After 30 seconds the learning stops and the final m_disconAdjustTimeMs is set as: m_disconAdjustTimeMs * 1.15 + 5.0.

  With firmware specialities for AudioTrack Write behaviour now kind of “well known” the systematic issue can be worked around easily. This helps users on affected system to not have to create an advancedsettings.xml for a manual fix.

DVD

• Playback of DVD folder structures over network sources (e.g. SMB/NFS/HTTP, etc.) has been fixed.

Filesystems

• A fix in Samba was made that “corrected” a long-standing assumption – it turns out that documentation doesn’t always match code implementation. We now handle both the old Samba implementation and the new “correct” implementation.
• Further improvements to the new NFS4 implementation have been made by @thexai . This fixes stalls/errors and brings some performance improvements to our NFS implementation.

Game/Retroplayer

• Assorted fixes to the new Savestate Manager to improve usability. Thanks to @KOPRajs for reporting, and also providing the PR to fix the issues found.
• An assortment of OSD improvements by @garbear resolving further issues reported by @KOPRajs.
• A number of performance improvements (memory reads, faster dialogs/savestates).
• Input fixes have been made that allow resetting multitap controller inputs, as well as fixing an issue around “ignored” input buttons not being saved.
• Sync of some of the common controller types has been made
  • game.controller.default
  • game.controller.keyboard
  • game.controller.mouse
  • game.controller.snes

General

• Fixes various overflows when using new chrono infrastructure. This fixes “keep audio device alive” when passthrough is used with an AVR.
• A number of fixes by @ksooo that aim to fix regressions regarding context menu items/behaviour.
• A fix for an issue on 32-bit systems that affected the sorting of items. Thanks @vpeter4.
• Fixes regarding the rework of the Favourites window have been addressed. This returns behaviour found in v19 for the following:
  • Support actions up/down plus key mapping for u and d keys.
  • Support action delete plus key mapping for delete key.
  • Change keymaps to open the Favourites Browser window instead of the Favourites dialog as currently.
• A fix by a returning team member (@CrystalP) that resolves crashes due to Unicode characters.

Platform Specific

• Android
  • Fix packaging regression that affected some parts of the Python PyCryptodome module.
• Windows
  • A fix was made to address an issue where some less-than-usual dimension videos were causing AMD systems to fallback to software decoding instead of using DXVA.
  • A packaging issues on Windows platforms meant that Chorus was unable to be used. A fix was found by @CrystalP, so users wanting to access Chorus from a Windows host can now rejoice.

PVR

• A fix to resolve PVR Channel Groups to correctly show channels ordered as provided by a PVR backend.

Python

• A bump of cPython to 3.11.2 was made to fix an upstream issue with the ElementTree binary module. This fixes crashes on Android when an installed addon uses the common ElementTree Python module.

Subtitles

• A regression was fixed regarding Right to Left language subtitles placing punctuation incorrectly. It turns out that @CastagnaIT‘s implementation was too correct, and an informal standard adopted by subtitle creators to place punctuation in Left to Right positions in Right to Left subtitles was worked around.
• A couple of fixes for WebVTT subtitles were made to resolve overlapping of segments.
• Line spacing has been altered in our use of libass to avoid overlapping of text boxes.

UPnP

• @enen92 has made a number of improvements and fixes when Kodi is being used as a UPnP server. He has fixed a number of regressions around listings and artwork.